Plumber

London

Posted: 07/02/2018

Closes: 07/03/2018

Hours:Full time

Contract:Permanent

Plumber

Salary up to £42,744

Grade: Band 1 (PLM)

Work Hours: 36 Hours per Week

Hackney Council is looking for a qualified plumber to join our building maintenance team. Your work will help us keep public buildings, homes and offices across the borough safe and efficient. This plays an important role in making Hackney cleaner, safer and greener.

You will carry out a range of tasks ensuring we meet latest safety standards. Day to day your work may involve general maintenance like renewing gutters, you will install bathroom and kitchen items as well as tracing leaks and making good. You will also undertake trusted assessor surveys and create reports. This a comprehensive repair service, so you may need to do minor carpentry, electrical and finishing work too.

We need someone with excellent communications skills who can work with our diverse communities and prioritise customer care. You should be able to juggle a competing workload, work well under pressure and take pride in completing your work to a high standard.

This work may be physically demanding and include working at heights. You must have a clean UK Driving Licence and a City and Guilds in Plumbing or NVQ Level 3. Your work will also require a good level of numeracy and the ability to interpret building plans and keep accurate records. You will also need to have IT skills as you will be using a hand-held device to record your work.

Hackney is London's most diverse borough. Reaching from the Square Mile to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, this is an area of rapid economic growth yet with more green spaces than any other inner London area. We have some of the best schools and transport connections and are known around the world for our thriving cultural and tech sectors. The excellent public services we provide prompted LGC to name us Council of the Last Twenty Years.

At Hackney, we go that extra mile for our residents; we offer a work environment which is stimulating, fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high profile organisation. If you share our values and are ready to be part of our exciting journey please visit our website via the button below to apply.

For more information about the role, please contact Amy Willoughby on 0208 356 8522.

The ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.

Please attach a supporting statement showing how your skills, knowledge and experience help you meet all aspects of the post set out in the job description and person specification.

Closing Date: 7 March 2018 (22:59pm).

We are passionate about equal opportunities and welcome applicants with a broad diversity of talent and those who are interested in flexible working arrangements.

Hackney is London's most diverse and dynamic borough. Stretching from the edge of the City, to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, it is an area of rapid economic growth, particularly in the tech, media, fashion and other creative industries. Hackney has more green space than any other inner London borough, some of the capital's best schools, and first class transport connections, which combined with excellent local public services and a thriving arts, cultural and retail sector, are fast making it one of London's most popular areas to live, work and visit. Our challenge is to make sure that our borough's economic growth provides benefits for everyone who lives here, and to create opportunities that will transform the lives of local people.

We know that staff are key to our success and we are seeking people with ambition, creativity and commitment to our values to help us achieve the best for the people of Hackney.

At Hackney, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is stimulating, fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high profile organisation.

We are passionate about equal opportunities and welcome a broad diversity of talent to apply

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